Product DescriptionThis reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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The High Priest of Illinois
The Golden Book of Springfield is a super arcane, esoteric gem!!It should be required reading in every Illinois school.Lindsey attempts to do justice to his home state, by creating a futuristic Illinios filled with life and dignity. So unlike the Illinois of his time or anyone elses. Lindsey has a deep knowledge of the occult which is apparent to anyone who reads this book. The book is steeped in the occult tradition, filled with magic and mysticisim.Like ancient vibrations coming off his midwestern landscapes. Lindsey was the real deal!Artist, poet, seer!Its like an Illinois Book of the Dead.This book will leave the reader with a certain level of aboveness, for those hip/sensative enough to appreciate what Lindsey is saying.The fact that this novel (Lindseys only) has just recently been available after almost 70 years just makes it even more special.Unfourtunately I do not think I have even barely shown has special and unique this novel is.Its better the psychedelics!!

The High Priest of Illinois
The Golden Book of Springfield is a super arcane, esoteric gem!!It should be required reading in every Illinois school.Lindsey attempts to do justice to his home state, be creating a futuristic Illinios filled with life and dignity. So unlike the Illinois of his time or anyone elses. Lindsey has a deep knowledge of the occult which is apparent to anyone who reads this book. The book is steeped in the occult tradition, filled with magic and mysticisim.Like ancient vibrations coming off his midwestern landscapes. Lindsey was the real deal!Artist, poet, seer!Its like an Illinois Book of the Dead.This book will leave the reader with a certain level of aboveness, for those hip/sensative enough to appreciate what Lindsey is saying.The fact that this novel (Lindseys only) has just recently been available after almost 70 years just makes it even more special.Unfourtunately I do not think I have even barely shown has special and unique this novel is.Its better the psychedelics!!
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Product DescriptionThis digital document, covering the life and work of (Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 7417 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

Product DescriptionIn 1925, Vachel Lindsay wrote "The Progress and Poetry of the Movies" as a sequel to his pioneering "Art of the Moving Picture" (1915) and a reconsideration of a popular entertainment form that dominated the commercialized leisure of his fellow Americans. Seeking to counter his reputation as a much-traveled "jazz poet," Lindsay offered his services as an arbiter of taste to such influential members of the Hollywood movie colony as Douglas Fairbanks and invited the ordinary spectator to imagine the 1920s photoplay as intimately linked to an emerging hieroglyphic civilization. The present edition of "The Progress and Poetry of the Movies", never published in Lindsay's lifetime, contributes to our understanding of the origins of contemporary film studies. The reproduction of family-album photographs and pen-and-ink drawings as well as publicity stills from "The Thief of Bagdad", "The Covered Wagon", "Peter Pan", "Monsieur Beaucaire", and "Merton of the Movies" spotlights the pleasure he derived from visual forms of communication. Lindsay's attempt to recapture public recognition failed, however, and he was unable to secure a stable position for himself in America after World War I. ... Read more